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Greengairs Landfill in 2012. The Greengairs Landfill is a landfill site in Scotland that receives non-hazardous household, commercial and industrial waste from the North Lanarkshire area. Greengairs was opened in 1990 and features landfill gas collection systems which are used to generate electricity for export into the National Grid.
Greengairs power station opened in 1996, and is powered by methane produced by biodegrading materials from a large landfill site developed since 1990 in former open cast workings situated to the south of the village. [10] Greengairs is the largest landfill site in Scotland, handling waste from Glasgow and Edinburgh. [11]
Avondale Environmental, better known as Avondale Landfill, is a major Scottish landfill located in Polmont, off junction 4 of the M9 motorway. [1] Avondale takes large volumes of waste from the Forth Valley and some from West Lothian .
Landfill site at Oatslie, Scotland, in 2009. Landfills in the United Kingdom were historically the most commonly used option for waste disposal. Up until the 1980s, policies of successive governments had endorsed the "dilute and disperse" approach. [1]
Beaufort's Dyke, showing the position of the munitions dump, from an Admiralty chart published in 1947. Depth in fathoms. Because of its depth and its proximity to the Cairnryan military port, Beaufort's Dyke became the United Kingdom's largest offshore dump site for surplus conventional and chemical munitions after the Second World War: it had been used for the purpose since the early 20th ...
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Allerton waste recovery park, North Yorkshire [1] Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility; Ardley ERF; Baldovie WtE (Dundee) Beddington Energy Recovery Facility (Sutton, London) Bolton WtE; Chineham EfW; Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre; Crossness STW Sludge Powered Generator (Belvedere, London) CSWDC (Coventry) Devonport Dockyard Incinerator ...
Mount Vernon is a residential area in the east end of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.It directly borders Sandyhills and Foxley to the west, while Barlanark is the closest neighbourhood to the north, Barrachnie and Baillieston to the east and Carmyle to the south, although Mount Vernon is separated from these by areas of open land, including Early Braes public park [1] and the former Kenmuir farm.